9
Jul
2010
SEO For 2010:Search Engine Optimization Secrets – Kindle Bestseller
Product Description
SEO For 2010:Search Engine Optimization Secrets are strategies for 2010 to help you optimize your website and dominate the world’s leading search engines. The Internet is now the telephone book. So as a business you have to adapt and not only adapt well, you have to do one better than your competitors so your name comes up at the top of the list on any keyword search. No longer can you just buy a full page ad in a telephone book to stand out. You have to do the equi… More >>
SEO For 2010:Search Engine Optimization Secrets – Kindle Bestseller
Brent Butler hits the nail on the head in his review. If your knowledge of SEO is very limited or zero then this book is worth the price. If not, there are much better buys out there.
Firstly, as Mr Butler mentions, the amount of repetition and page filling is poor. It is obvious, blatant and unnecessary.
Secondly, you should note how a large section of the book is dedicated to PPC advertising and again uses page filling pictures to show completely unnecessary walk-throughs. Whilst PPC is part of any overall consideration in web exposure, it is not something I anticipated being used in way it is in this book. Furthermore, the extent to which the author covers PPC is matched only by the scant coverage given to the use of social media strategy. The latter is covered as if it doesn’t matter and is of low value when countless other SEO experts will tell you of it’s increasingly high worth.
The book also fails to mention any major directory outside of the USA, of which there are many of note. A major flaw in my opinion and an indication of a surprising one-nation viewpoint in such a global subject matter.
Personally, I found the book also failed to address the importance of valued content. It mentions it, but nothing like in the volume I thought it would. There are a number of typographical errors in the eBook too, not something I found reassuring.
In summary, buy it if you are a novice or relatively new to SEO. It is also worth the money if you just want a quick refresher of some of the points that can perhaps be forgotten too easily. However, if you work in any way connected to the web industry, site design or seek to make a living out of SEO…buy something else. The book has too many major flaws to be recommended as an authoritative guide or anything even approaching it.
Rating: 2 / 5
First, if you spend $10 on this book, and you know nothing about SEO, you will likely learn enough basics to improve your web business somewhat and will certainly get your $10 worth.
However, the claims of the authors and the other reviewers here are on the rosy side, to say the least.
The authors did suggest several things about optimizing web pages and search engine/directory submissions that, if actually effective, I didn’t know and will help out my web sites.
However, about 1/3rd of the book is really helpful. The rest is just repetition, at times the same information over and over again in one paragraph after another. Far too much of the book is spent trying to convince you that what the authors want you to do is correct, rather than just telling you the right things to do.
A considerable portion of the last half of the book is spent on a blow by blow description of self evident operations of the Google Adwords site. There are two major problems with this. First, the authors start out by telling you that if you are new to the concept, it would be miraculous if you could devise your own effective pay per click program. Second, in all the voluminous information they give you on pay per click, not once do they mention the single most important trick to successful pay per click programs.
The second half of the book is barely readable. It is filled with spelling errors, wrong words, grammatical errors, run on sentences, sentence fragments, and at times complete nonsense sentences. Obviously it was not edited AT ALL. Neither author has a clue that an apostrophe may be used to denote the possessive. It was clearly not even spell checked, much less run thru something as easy to get your hands on and use as Word’s grammar checker. Reading half of a book that constantly annoys the sensibilities of a literate reader is not a happy experience.
The graphical exhibits in the Kindle Edition might as well have been omitted. They are not formatted in anything near the resolution or size needed to be legible or clear in the Kindle device.
Sean Odom makes a big point early in the book that most of these SEO How To books are filled with repetition and fluff, but HIS book is not like that. Sadly, it IS like that. The repetition goes FAR beyond drilling an important concept into your head, and the repetitions are filled with very general information rather than nuts and bolts direction.
The book often (far more than the 1% another review claimed) devolves into a blatant sales pitch for the authors’ SEO company and its services. You are often told that even if you follow all the advice in the book, you’ll never do it as well or efficiently as a real SEO pro, and so you should really just hire them.
Bottom line: as mentioned above, if you know nothing about SEO, you’ll get your $10 worth. If you know more than the basics about how keywords relate to content, meta tags, and other HTML elements, this book is already beneath your knowledge threshold on SEO techniques.
The most valuable resource in the book may be lists of resources, such as PPC outlets, social networking sites, and effective search engines to submit to.
Rating: 2 / 5
This book sets the stage for the next evolution in marketing for websites. Pay-Per-Click does not have the return on investment that Search Engine Optimization(SEO) can acheive, and the authors do a very good job of outlining exactly why this is. There aree many different parts of a website both on page and off which can be manipulated to some extent by a search engine optimizer which you can become after reading this book. The authors do an excellent job explaining the many pitfalls that can arise when SEO is done incorrectly. Without this book I lost hope, but every day I see my rankings go up for the words I chose because I learned the correct principles from this book. I cannot wait to see what is new in thwe 2011 book in August. I am a VERIFIED BUYER I just bought the paperback version.
Rating: 5 / 5
My wife and I my own a small salon and I not only use Mike’s techniques but have seen first hand over and over how great they are. So when I got the Tweet his new book was available on Kindle I went out and got it. I am amazed at how much new stuff is in the book. Also he did just what he said he would do last year, made it readable and spectacular for the Kindle. I have this on my new kindle and all the pictures this year are crystal clear and fit perfectly! I highly recommend Mike Monahan for your SEO efforts. he truly knows what he does. Take it from me! I like people to know I am a real person so email me at [...] for my own personal opinion. I know it is a Walmart address but I work in I.T. and have a salon business on the side.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is truly great. It’s like having an SEO expert showing you in very simple, step-by-step instructions, how to get your website or blog ranked #1 on Google and for Bing. When I launched my website, I was very frustrated to find that it wasn’t listed anywhere on the search engines.
After about 3 months, I was finally on page 3 of Google but has no traffic. So I was looking for an SEO book and found this one. When I was at the book store, there were a couple of others books on SEO but they seemed as though they were way too technical.
The book is separated into two parts. The first is about on-page step-by-step optimization techniques. The book tells you what you need to do on your website to achieve the highly coveted superior rankings. The second part, which focuses on off-page optimization reveals some great techniques for publishing your website across the Internet and generating in-bound links to your site in less than a week. The white hat way and tells you to stay away from black hat ways
Rating: 5 / 5
I have read your above post and I agree with you about the Search Engine Optimization. Now a days internet marketing become so popular which helps in making your business.
search engine optimization is a tedious if not lengthy process ‘;-
well of course search engine optimization is the stuff that can make a website earn money “”